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Macbeth Act 4 Overview (Scene II (Lady Macduff (gentle & affectionate…
Macbeth Act 4 Overview
Scene II
Ross
Describes State of Scotland a land of fear, suspicion, treachery & cruelty: "But cruel are the times, when we are traitors and do not know ourselves"
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Lady Macduff
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Fells anger towards her husband prompted by the fear of being left at the mercy of a tyrant & hurt at not being taken into her husband's confidence.
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Despite all she had said about Macduff, she stands up for him when the murderers ask for him: "I hide in no place so unsatisfied Where such as thou mayst find him."
Son
Advanced, Pert and Clever, unperturbed by his mother's statement: "Sirrah, you're father's dead: And what will you do now? How will you live?"
Innocence conveyed in his answer "As birds do, mother-"
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Macduff
Does not appear in the scene but his act of fleeing to England and leaving his family in a country he would not stay in himself makes him a traitor
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Scene I
Thunder
Reoccurring theme: Nature, Chaos, Disorder
3 Witches
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Creating a spell "like hell broth"; ingredients are gruesome mixture of animal parts & entrails, unnatural, violent to remind us of their evil
"eye of newt and toe of frog, / wool of bat and tongue of dog"
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Macbeth
Prepared to have the whole universe reduced to chaos & disorder to find out what he wants to know form the witches "Even till destruction sicken; answer me to what I ask you."
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His language conveys his urgency & the turbulence of his mind degenerating a heartless & destuctive tyrant
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Lennox
Doesn't convey disloyalty to Macbeth despite his suspicion unlike Macduff "What's your Grave's will?"